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                   This is where I will leave you- hopefully wanting more !!   

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                   This is where I will leave you- hopefully wanting more !!   

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I think this is.a good place to conclude my first investigation into my imaginary world, as after these works I've finished my trials with paper. I think my AT2 is the place to put my sketches onto the desired mediums. The practice session is done, and I'm ready to make my final piece. But unfortunately, you have to wait !
In conclusion, I am ready to transfer my hybrid sketches to park and soundscape to the massive piece of bark- I think the soundscape belongs to the massive monument to highlight how central sound is to the hybrid nature of my imaginary world.

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I've structured my Padlet as two trees, one that is formed from my introduction to the subject and the other from my exploration of my final concept. It is an ode to my imaginary world and the powerful plants that inhabit it.

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Artist Statement: My work is an exploration of nature’s autonomy in art. It asks the question, what if plants took over man-made creation ? If all we had left to create art was what could be found on a walk down the merri creek, you’d be left with my work. My mediums include ink, paint, plant rubbings done with crayon and lead pencil, collage using plant foliage collecting during the class-led walks. Even my unnatural materials have been sourced at this site, as I have collected discarded cardboard. It borrows techniques from artists who have imprinted themselves into the natural world, and used nature as their central tool rather than man-made resources. This includes Richard Long’s A Line Made by Walking and Graeme Base’s Uno’s Garden (Base 2013). I am inspired by my natural environment, and believe that reverence to the power and sovereignty of resources is an important concept in modern Australia.

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pairing my final drawings with some nature materials before composing the final concept piece. I want the hybrid and transition to be visible, and adding the soundscape leaves links my ideas.

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I used the skills from Week 1's contour drawings to come up with her hands

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oh no ! you’ve caught her without her robe ! she’s turning back to look you in the eyes and catch your reaction to her body

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if she lived in my imaginary world, she wouldn’t have to cover her scary plant body- she’d be celebrated and empowered for being a plant hybrid.

I connected this to the Patricia Piccinini GOMA walk from Week 3- about the uncomfortable reception of hybrid humanoids. It makes me wonder about how she would be received in my imaginary world of empowered plants, compared to how scary she seems in our reality.

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my developed drawing from my Week 3 hybrid creatures sketch

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This is my hybrid plant/humanoid drawing that represents plants in positions of authority and action

She is the 'Man in the Suit' from the Week 3 podcast, but my next drawing subverts that.

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these were a good trial for seeing if my canvas would survive, or if my art would wrinkle and die, before preparing my final work

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The Intersecting Sound of Organic and Non-Organic Environments, accompanied by the visual realities on my imaginary world.

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The Intersecting Sound of Organic and Non-Organic Environments, accompanied by the visual realities on my imaginary world.

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White paint and black sharpie on Bark

Sharpie on Bark and Leaves

printed Paper on Bark

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here's the bark, hardly fitting in my car

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I found an amazing piece of bark that I just knew had to be part of my final piece. In lockdown, choosing a medium and canvas requires more planning than I am capable of- setting up a click and collect, putting full faith in a product you've only seen online ! So as soon as I saw this, I knew I'd struck gold.

To preserve this piece until I was confident enough, I practiced my soundscapes again on smaller, less BREATHTAKING pieces of bark.

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my map/leaf/cardboard creation took the sketch and added plants over the top of it.

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I replicated my sound scape sketches onto leaves.
I had to experiment with some mediums- first I used ink pen, but found that was closer to the Week 7 Print Making workshop, making etches rather than leaving ink. I had better luck with black sharpie, that left a stronger tone. I decided to buy a fresh pen for the rest of the project, to bring out the pigment.

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merri creek and Didirri's Bird Sounds

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Trialing these sketches on plants

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the same area from my test in the practice exploration

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the harsh sounds of bird cawing, overpowering the harsh sounds of cars and chatter

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this uses the sprial, triangle and circle shapes from the David Modler lecture in Week 6

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the curved line represent the sound of lapping water, interrupted by the harsh sounds of cars driving over the bridge. I tried to use an embodied drawing 

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this is inspired by my first soundscape and really shows organic sounds existing in the middle of man's noise

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Using scholarship from Donna Haraway, the Week 3 Podcast and Seminar

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From my exploration after Week 6

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using scholarship from Week 4

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because there's no erasing on leaves !!

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I found it really enriching to use leaves as a canvas, imprinting on to them and giving the organic resources the creative control. Using leaves means the shape doesn't accomodate all you could capture on a structured sheet of paper.

I trialled a few different designs on my leaves
- maps of urban areas
- sound scapes from the environment where the leaves were collected
-hybrid drawings of plant humanoids

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It is with this, I have the confidence to pursue my final works

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this is where the strength comes from. although it might make more sense to have the beginning development of skills as the trunk or the root, my Padlet has to have those initial skills as the floral, the bloom, the foliage because the strength and root of my imagianry world isn't defined until we reach this state.

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My Original Wonderings read: My What if Question asks 'What if plants overtook man made structures' and investigates the places where cities converge with natural areas, looking at the relationship and sovereignty as well as investigating the different materials and sounds available in each different section of this world.

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when the plants are secondary to the man-made structure (placed on after drawing the map, and only put in places where they fit and the spaces reserved for them), they die !! the antithesis of my imaginary world !!

the map is of the residential area adjacent to the coburg stretch of the merri creek, and is drawn with black sharpie on a cardboard takeaway container i found discarded on the merri creek trail

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using new leaves means loosely stuck to cardboard means that some of the lines aren’t straight, and i can’t always make a mark where i think it should go- just like my imaginary world, i have to bend to the will of my sovereign plants

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continuing my preparation, i created a structure using material collected to practice using ink on leaves, to see if my final goal of collages marrying different resources is viable. I found that the ink was really smooth and clear on green, new leaves but the older leaves were too brittle and crumbled under the pressure of the pen. So instead I used them, and their damaged structure to make standing additions to a flat work. I hope it added some movement, and having the dead leaves play into the desire and structure of the map (instead of controlling and determining where lines can be placed as with the green leaves) can symbolise the current relationship of nature and man-made, contrasting with the intentions of my imagined world and creating a reference point for where I want to take my findings about the relationships.

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Building off Week 6's exploration of our imaginary worlds, I wanted to do some basic little sketches to start outlining what I want my exploration to look like/consist of. I want to be able to do this with traditional material, rather than the digital materials I’ve used today, using paint/ink over photos or paint/ink over plant collages

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i like the use of colour, i wish the lines were clearer so you could see the linework linked to the colour and use them together to recreate the environment where these sounds come from, so this is something i’ll revisit.

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this woman is half wax model from the smithsonian, and half fiddle leaf fig from my own environment- which introduces my interest in autonomous plant people.

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sound map and first blind contour drawing

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sound map and first blind contour drawing

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With the background work done, my practice is sprouting. I am at the point in my journey where my world is clear enough to produce an Artist's Statement, which appeared at the top of my Padlet.

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my lovely pictures !
i see:
lead pencil drawings

i think:
i should have chosen an easier pose and i need more practice

i wonder:
i don’t really know if i’m proud of these or not so i wonder how i’ll feel about them at the end of the course

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My saplings from this part of my practice include

- my Visual Abstract
- my mind mapping
- my phone markup sketches
- my practice sculpture trialing the use of plants

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Week 6 Brainstorm
Here it is !! The ideas being empowered and energise. This marks the moment in my practice where I started to refine my ideas and move towards my final concept for my imaginary world

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These are my Hybrid Drawings from Week 3 (And a printed version)

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Week Three Hybrid Creature Drawings
In exploring the hybridity of two realities, I used the scholarship from Week 3's week of hybrid creatures. Especially considering the real implications of empowering nature, namely the relationship to sovereignty and native justice, Donna Haraway's 'Making Kin without Babies' was especially informative. It provided insight into reproductive justice and not valuing one person over another.

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I collected some fallen leaves from my walk in Week 4, to use in my practice. I also scavanged for a canvas by taking some discarded cardboard from the litter around the creek. I suppose this is bringing my imaginary world to life, as removing litter removes threats to the native flora and fauan and gives power back to the plants.

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Sound Recording from the Merri Creek Moreland Bridge intersection.

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Sound Recording from the Merri Creek Moreland Bridge intersection.

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My sound scape highlights the experience of being between the organic and in-organic, showing the tension as each sound rivals the other. In this arena, the roar of cars defeats the subtle wash of the creek water over the rocks but my inquiry investigates the opposite of this, wondering what it would be like if plants spoke over the man-made.

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Week Four Nature Walk, drawings and artefacts
The nature walk was a pivotal week for me, as it gave me inspiration through not only just visuals, but sound. My sound scape introduces my central theme, the sensory experience of the hybrid space where man-made resources and powerful natural environments meet.

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Mentor Texts:
The first image that inspired my imaginary world

Richard Long's A Line Made by Walking

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Week One Imaginary World Brainstorm from an Image
The beginning of ideas !! A seedling has sprouted from my propagated ideas. From seminar one, my personal love for sites highlighting natures power has been evident, bursting from the soil.

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Sampling Saplings from Propagating Ideas

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Sampling Saplings from Propagating Ideas

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Week One Contour Drawings
These are the drawings and wonderings from Week 1's seminar.

Notably, one of my wonderings was about how I would feel about these drawings later on in the course. Sitting here at the halfway mark, I think of these drawings as treasures. I suppose, in my imaginary world's plant terms, they're fossils or the maybe the inner ring on a old tree; important frameworks that have hidden power, contributing to the main idea without being constantly visable

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My practice in DPSK begins with the first seminar, which introduced me to the basic skills of drawing. These are instrumental to the creation of my world, as the method of doing timed contour drawings became a neccessary routine for me to stimulate ideas and become comfortable with the subjects.

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A World of Self Autonomous Powerful Plants

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A World of Self Autonomous Powerful Plants